Explore how rubrics, scoring guides, and checklists can be used to assess 21st century skills, content learning, and higher-order thinking
Plan your assessments
Create an assessment using the Intel Education Assessing Projects application
Revise your student sample
Check all of your documents for consistency in meeting your unit objectives
Pair and Share
Share your student samples with your Pair/Share group.
Request specific feedback from group members
Follow the steps for the Pair and Share on pp. 5.01-5.02.
Pedagogical Practices: Involving Students in the Assessment Process
We will use the Engage Community group for this activity.
Create a document in the Engage Community group following the sample published in the document section.
Choose a reporter to record the group responses in the document.
Review documents created by other groups and add suggestions for solutions.
Reflecting on Assessment in Your Classroom
Do the self-assessment on p. 5.05-5.06.
Where do you see areas for improvement? You may want to note one or two in the space provided on p. 5.06.
Reviewing Assessment Plans
You will review teacher-created assessment plans to find ideas for your own assessment plan.Look at the samples by going to http://www.intel.com/education/AssessingProjects and click on Assessment Plans.
As you look at the samples, consider any strategies that apply to the areas that you want to focus on.
Follow steps 3-6 on p. 5.07.
Activity 2: Step 1, Creating Student Assessments
Read and complete the steps for Activity 2, pp. 5.08-5.10.
By the end of activity 2 you will have created the first draft of your Assessment Summary using the information from you Assessment Planning Table and the Assessment Timeline.
Activity 2: Step 2, Planning an Assessment for My Student Sample
Open your student sample and think about
What concepts, skills, and knowledge will be assssed?
How will the CFQs be assessed?
What higher-order thinking skills will be assessed?
What 21st century skills will be assessed?
Work through the tables on pp. 5.11-5.12 in planning the assessment for your student sample
Activity 2: Step 3, Creating an Assessment for My Student Sample
Use the Assessing Projects application to create an assessment of your student sample.
Export your assessment to your assessment folder in your Portfolio folder
Revisit your Unit Plan (p. 5.16)
Do a self-review of your Unit Plan and any supporting documentation you have created so far.
Revise any areas that need modification based upon peer feedback and new ideas that have occurred to you. Use checklists to help you self-assess your unit.
Module 5 Reflection
Return to the Engage Community group blog and respond to the Module 5 Reflection prompt.
Module 5: Assessing Student Projects
What will we do?
- Explore how rubrics, scoring guides, and checklists can be used to assess 21st century skills, content learning, and higher-order thinking
- Plan your assessments
- Create an assessment using the Intel Education Assessing Projects application
- Revise your student sample
- Check all of your documents for consistency in meeting your unit objectives
Pair and SharePedagogical Practices: Involving Students in the Assessment Process
- We will use the Engage Community group for this activity.
- Create a document in the Engage Community group following the sample published in the document section.
- Choose a reporter to record the group responses in the document.
- Review documents created by other groups and add suggestions for solutions.
Reflecting on Assessment in Your Classroom- Do the self-assessment on p. 5.05-5.06.
- Where do you see areas for improvement? You may want to note one or two in the space provided on p. 5.06.
Reviewing Assessment Plans- You will review teacher-created assessment plans to find ideas for your own assessment plan.Look at the samples by going to http://www.intel.com/education/AssessingProjects and click on Assessment Plans.
- As you look at the samples, consider any strategies that apply to the areas that you want to focus on.
- Follow steps 3-6 on p. 5.07.
Activity 2: Step 1, Creating Student Assessments- Read and complete the steps for Activity 2, pp. 5.08-5.10.
- By the end of activity 2 you will have created the first draft of your Assessment Summary using the information from you Assessment Planning Table and the Assessment Timeline.
Activity 2: Step 2, Planning an Assessment for My Student Sample- Open your student sample and think about
- What concepts, skills, and knowledge will be assssed?
- How will the CFQs be assessed?
- What higher-order thinking skills will be assessed?
- What 21st century skills will be assessed?
- Work through the tables on pp. 5.11-5.12 in planning the assessment for your student sample
Activity 2: Step 3, Creating an Assessment for My Student Sample- Read through the information on p. 5.13
- Using the Assessing Projects Application
- Go to http://www.intel.com/education/AssessingProjects
- Click Try It tab to view an animated overview and learn how to use the application
- Return to http://www.intel.com/education/AssessingProjects
- Sign into the workspace.
- Use the Assessing Projects application to create an assessment of your student sample.
- Export your assessment to your assessment folder in your Portfolio folder
Revisit your Unit Plan (p. 5.16)- Do a self-review of your Unit Plan and any supporting documentation you have created so far.
- Revise any areas that need modification based upon peer feedback and new ideas that have occurred to you. Use checklists to help you self-assess your unit.
Module 5 Reflection